Dive at Bare Island, La Perouse, NSW on Wednesday 18 March 2015

Dive Details

Location

Date

Wednesday 18 March 2015

Time

3:41pm - 5:07pm

Details

Kim wanted to get some more shots of the white and pink pygmy pipehorses and I wanted to see if I could get a better shot of the skeleton shrimp. We got in at the "swimming pool" on the north west corner of the island and descended right at the start of the slope. The sentry pygmy pipehorses were there.

We headed down the slope and around the corner to the pygmy pipehorses. Both pipehorses are male and pregnant so we figured there must be females around the area. We had a good look on both sides and only found a juvenile pygmy pipehorse each. Kim also found a cool little nudibranch that looks like a Gymnodoris.

We next took some photos of the skeleton shrimp before making our way back to the slope. I tried to find the two juvenile pygmies I'd seen yesterday. I found their locations without much trouble but could not see either juvenile.

At the rocks with the pink sea tulips we found the two pygmy pipehorses we'd seen over the last couple of days and then made our way to the exit, passing the sentry pygmy pipehorses on the way.

We exited near the ramp.

Buddy

Kim Dinh

Seas

Slight

Visibility

3 to 5 metres

Duration

86 minutes

Maximum depth

14.9 m

Average depth

11.3 m

Water temperature

21.9°C

Dive Profile from Citizen Hyper Aqualand

Tides at Botany Bay AEDT

Note that tides at dive site may vary from above location.

Low

12:53am

0.42m

High

7:16am

1.81m

Low

1:49pm

0.24m

High

7:55pm

1.57m

Camera gear

Camera

Nikon D7000

Lens

Nikon AF Micro-Nikkor 60mm f/2.8D

Housing

Ikelite 6801.70

Lens port

Ikelite Flat Port 5502.41

Strobe

2 x Ikelite SubStrobe DS161

Photographs

Depth information, where present, indicates the depth of the camera when the photograph was taken and can be used to approximate the depth of the subject.